On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:36:02 +0000 Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com allegedly wrote:
On 12/02/2014 10:54, Chris Green wrote: [SNIP]
The main requirement is to make the site more interesting to look at rather than to fundamentally change its layout and design. The thought is probably to use soemthing like WordPress to create the site and to pay for someone whose major function will be to make the site attractive.
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Wordpress is a fantastic tool, and designed for exactly this. There are hundreds and hundreds of free themes, and most are easily changed via "child-themes". An hour or two playing around would probably give you something to work on which would cover their immediate needs.
Plus 1 for wordpress. I have used it for years. It is easy for even a relative novice to build and maintain a site using the base package with one or two plugins and a free theme (and the range of plugins is huge).
If the school cannot find anyone internally to do a new build, then paying a small local company is an option. As for pricing, I know a a Norfolk Parish Council paid in the region of a few hundred pounds for theirs. I think any more than that would be unreasonable.
Hosting could be cheap too. Many large ISPs offer wordpress based hosting for peanuts. I'd be wary of staying with a company that wanted to "audit" its own design, unless of course what they are actually offering is a new design consultancy.
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